the mystery of edwin drood

     

It's no mystery why this work was Dickens' last; he didn't live to finish it

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  • Dickens' unfinished last novel, he carried its solution to his grave
  • Some editions of this Dickens novel begin, "An ancient English cathedral town..."; others say "tower"--it's a "Mystery"!
  • Wilkie Collins called this book "Dickens' last laboured effort, the melancholy work of a worn-out brain"
  • It's no "mystery" why John Jasper haunts me--his fingers have knives on them!
  • Dickens offered to solve this "Mystery" for Queen Victoria before it was published, but she wasn't interested
  • It's a "Mystery" how this novel would have ended; Dickens died having only completed the first half
  • Rupert Holmes adapted this unfinshed Dickens work into a 1985 play-within-a-play musical
  • Dickens' first installment of this novel was published in April 1870; he died while working on part 6
  • Chapter 1 of this novel is "The Dawn"; Dickens was writing Chapter 22, "The Dawn Again", on the day he died
  • Dickens thought of calling this mystery "Dead? Or Alive?", leading some to think the title hero didn't really die
  • "T.M.O.E.D."

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